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Willem Hendrik Keesom

1876 - 1956

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Willem Hendrik Keesom () (21 June 1876, Texel – 3 March 1956, Leiden) was a Dutch physicist who, in 1926, invented a method to freeze liquid helium. He also developed the first mathematical description of dipole–dipole interactions in 1921. Thus, dipole–dipole interactions are also known as Keesom interactions. He was previously a student of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who had discovered superconductivity (a feat for which Kamerlingh Onnes received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Willem Hendrik Keesom is the 569th most popular physicist (down from 552nd in 2024), the 593rd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 585th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Dutch Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 569 out of 851. Before him are Boris Rosing, Alfred Perot, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, José Celestino Mutis, Lev Artsimovich, and Ralph H. Fowler. After him are John Lennard-Jones, Jakob II Bernoulli, Marietta Blau, Claude Pouillet, Marcel Brillouin, and Eric Allin Cornell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 126. Before him are Aino Ackté, Constantin von Economo, Jacoba van Heemskerck, Stephanos Christopoulos, Virginia Bolten, and Borisav Stanković. After him are Stylianos Gonatas, Alfred Stock, Solomon Lozovsky, Sotirios Versis, Felix Jacoby, and Carl Albert Andersen. Among people deceased in 1956, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 132. Before him are E. A. Dupont, Helmer Hanssen, Johann Radon, Paul Renner, Navvab Safavi, and Tommy Dorsey. After him are Hans Carossa, Herminio Masantonio, Vladimir Filatov, Johannes Jørgensen, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, and Austin Osman Spare.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 593 out of 1,646. Before him are Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876), Peter R. de Vries (1956), Corneille de Lyon (1500), Ernesto Hoost (1965), Martin Koeman (1938), and Johannes Meursius (1579). After him are Hans van Manen (1932), Peter van de Kamp (1901), Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Jan de Vries (1944), Arjen Anthony Lucassen (1960), and Jan de Quay (1901).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 18. Before him are Gerard 't Hooft (1946), Jan Ingenhousz (1730), Hans Kramers (1894), Samuel Goudsmit (1902), Hendrik Casimir (1909), and Wander Johannes de Haas (1878). After him are Balthasar van der Pol (1889), Abraham Pais (1918), Jan Burgers (1895), Dirk Coster (1889), Antonius van den Broek (1870), and Kees Schouhamer Immink (1946).

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